we believe that lower-tier cities will be bigger, wealthier and more eager to spend, and could contribute two-thirds of incremental growth in national private consumption toward 2030," said Robin Xing, Morgan Stanley's chief China economist, in a research report. ...
off from nearly 40% just two years ago. The reason, according to Indeed economist Cory Stahle, is more of a shift to "skills-first hiring" that places less emphasis on educational background and more on what prospective
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Gao: My parents could have retired last year or the year before, but now, because of the policy change – they have to work longer, and pay more into the pension fund. And we don’t even know if they can get that money back. To put it bluntly – that’s if they can live...
stoned to death. But Afghan women have changed after two decades of American-backed government. Many have university degrees. Before the Taliban seized power last year, almost 30% of civil servants were women. On the streets of Kabul book-waving girls have been chanting: “open the schools”...
Zhong Zhengsheng, chief economist with Pingan Securities, said lowering policy interest rates is the most direct way to drive down financing costs. Zhong said more convenient financing for companies that contribute to the new drivers of the economy, as well as decreased financing costs, will be co...
The 80/20 rule – also known as the Pareto principle after the Italian economist who wrote about it more than a hundred years ago – refers to a small number of causes having outsized outcomes. Vilfredo noticed a fifth of the pea plants in...
six months of theCOVID-19 pandemicsaved lives–but the decision to use lockdowns is much more nuanced and the research shouldn’t be used to justify lockdowns now or to retroactively endorse that approach, said health economist Olga Yakusheva, associate professor at the U-M School of ...
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Younger workers in certain industries could be in for an especially hard year. “In those sitting-down type of jobs, or white-collar jobs, it will continue to be tough for those recent graduates or young unemployed folks,” said Andrew Flowers, an economist at recruitment marketing firm Appca...